Karl Adam (lawyer)

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Karl Adam (* 17th February 1899 in Plauen ; † 26. July 1943 ) was a German lawyer and District Chief in German-occupied Poland during World War II .

Life

Adam studied law and received his doctorate . Since 1923 he was involved with the National Socialists, but did not officially become a member of the NSDAP until 1926 ( membership number 9.115). He was employed as a printer for the Völkische Nachrichten and later also worked as a party judge . As a lawyer, he had a job as an administrative officer at the ev.-luth. Church Community Association Dresden .

In the Generalgouvernement Adam was from December 15, 1940 deputy head of the Lublin district administration under the district governor Ernst Zörner , from April 1, 1942 head of the personnel office there. At the beginning of December 1942 Adam became head of the district in Biłgoraj . Together with his Polish driver and the district farmer of his district, Adam was shot dead in an attack by the Polish Home Army at the end of July 1943 .

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 (2nd unchanged edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 ).

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 456.
  2. ^ A b Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 379.